Interlibrary Loan Down Thurs, Dec 15

Alert on Interlibrary Loan log on page.

The Libraries' Interlibrary Loan services will be down for maintenance on Thurs, Dec 15 from 7am through the mid afternoon. There is currently a notice on the Interlibrary Loan log on page alerting people to this (image at right).

If you have any questions about this break in service, feel free to get in touch with me.

SciVerse *NOT* Down December 10

As of Dec 8, the Dec 10 SciVerse outage has been postponed until early 2012. According to Elsevier, many people expressed concern about the timing of the outage in its impact on end-of-year research, exams, and other activities. 

They will notify us later about the timing and duration of the outage, and I'll pass along their information as soon as I hear anything.

I've just heard from out electronic serials librarian that SciVerse will be unavailable from 7:30AM EST - 8:30PM EST on Saturday, December 10th.  SciVerse is an integrated hub that is used to access Science Direct and Scopus. Direct access to these products should be unaffected."


So users will not be able to access the SciVerse hub during this time, but will be able to access the article databases Science Direct and Scopus.  It being the end of the semester, and end-of-the-semester research projects due, this could be a impede some last minute research. 

If anyone has questions about accessing article databases or journals in light of this service alert, feel free to email me or call me (269-387-5242), or contact the Science Reference staff.